Sunday, October 25, 2015

YOUR WEEKLY DIGESTION OF FOOD NEWS TO CONSUME....AND I SWEAR THE LAST OF DIM SUM WEEK...MAYBE

Canton Dim SumJu and Seafood Restaurant is only a few blocks or so over from me in the lovely SOMA hood. We'd been there before to try out the whole dining room, select from carts experience. Turns out, they have a spot just around the corner where you can get stuff to go. It is sort of on a side street and then you go down some steps into a basement like place that looks like a long narrow cafeteria. It's got that long counter with sneeze guard and metal railings as if you could slide a tray  down it while choosing your items. They don't necessarily do all the things they offer in the restaurant but it seems to be a place to get in quick for a lunch bite. Which makes sense as it is only open during lunch hours Monday through Friday. I popped in one day as I was weirdly craving a pork bun and picked a couple baked bbq pork buns and threw in a couple egg rolls to boot for around $6. The buns here are smaller here than other places, but they still have that soft and fluffy, slightly sweet taste of others. The pork inside is not as sweet and is in more of a brown sauce as opposed to bright red orange. Fortunately for me, they also don't have that miso roast pork flavor that's not my personal fave. In general terms they were okay. Not gonna say I bit into and was wowed by any means, but in the moment they did at least satisfy the pork bun craving I had. As for the egg rolls, they were filled with shredded cabbage and carrots and what I think was small bits of ground pork. They weren't the best I've had. They were a tad overcooked and greasy. Plus, they'd probably been sitting out for awhile as they were not exactly warm. They just didn't have that crispy, fresh cooked flavor. Sadly, I forgot to get some sweet duck sauce to dip them in, it would have been helpful to offset some of the blandness. I settled for some sriracha and the hot just perfectly overpowered everything. Well, sort of one out of two ain't bad. Considering there really are not any other options for dim sum in this part of SOMA, Canton's mini to go spot, is, well, good enough, for now. 


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Sunday, October 25, 2015

YOUR WEEKLY DIGESTION OF FOOD NEWS TO CONSUME....AND I SWEAR THE LAST OF DIM SUM WEEK...MAYBE

Canton Dim SumJu and Seafood Restaurant is only a few blocks or so over from me in the lovely SOMA hood. We'd been there before to try out the whole dining room, select from carts experience. Turns out, they have a spot just around the corner where you can get stuff to go. It is sort of on a side street and then you go down some steps into a basement like place that looks like a long narrow cafeteria. It's got that long counter with sneeze guard and metal railings as if you could slide a tray  down it while choosing your items. They don't necessarily do all the things they offer in the restaurant but it seems to be a place to get in quick for a lunch bite. Which makes sense as it is only open during lunch hours Monday through Friday. I popped in one day as I was weirdly craving a pork bun and picked a couple baked bbq pork buns and threw in a couple egg rolls to boot for around $6. The buns here are smaller here than other places, but they still have that soft and fluffy, slightly sweet taste of others. The pork inside is not as sweet and is in more of a brown sauce as opposed to bright red orange. Fortunately for me, they also don't have that miso roast pork flavor that's not my personal fave. In general terms they were okay. Not gonna say I bit into and was wowed by any means, but in the moment they did at least satisfy the pork bun craving I had. As for the egg rolls, they were filled with shredded cabbage and carrots and what I think was small bits of ground pork. They weren't the best I've had. They were a tad overcooked and greasy. Plus, they'd probably been sitting out for awhile as they were not exactly warm. They just didn't have that crispy, fresh cooked flavor. Sadly, I forgot to get some sweet duck sauce to dip them in, it would have been helpful to offset some of the blandness. I settled for some sriracha and the hot just perfectly overpowered everything. Well, sort of one out of two ain't bad. Considering there really are not any other options for dim sum in this part of SOMA, Canton's mini to go spot, is, well, good enough, for now. 


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